Monday, October 20, 2008

Took A shot - $150+13 65K Guaranteed

Won a seat to the $150+13 65k on fulltilt earlier Yesterday via a $26 STT. Normally i just unregister and use the $T for other tournaments that i normally play, but for some reason today i said to hell with it, i'm gonna take a shot. And a nice shot it turned out to be. I haven't reviewed it yet but i feel i played a pretty solid game and was really comfortable throughout the tourney. Saw some pretty big names in there too; AJKHoosier1, Pearljammed, Getpwn3d and some others.

Anyway i busted 26th when my AA ran into a flopped straight by villain with AJ. I don't think villain played it bad, his pre-flop call was reasonable imo, i just got unlucky on the flop. The only question in my mind is could i have gotten away? Here's the HH

I don't know if i'm just being result oriented or not but perhaps i could've played this differently?

I've noticed something about my game that maybe could be a leak. Late in tournaments when i have 18bb - 25bb stacks i kinda lock into hands. I don't really go through the same process i normally do. I think it has something to do with the fact that at these stacks any hand i raise i'm prepared to go all the way with so i just bulldoze it in regardless of whatever.

For instance, in this hand i immediately thought AJ on the flop. But i was the pf raiser so i had to cbet right? AJ, AQ 22-jj SCs were apart of both villains range imo. On the turn is where i might've blown it, should i have checked? I still had 17bbs right. I remember looking at the pot size and thinking i have a natural shove... and just shoved... sigh. perhaps if i had Ace spade it would've been ok.